2017/2018 Morphology, and

Code: 100190 ECTS Credits: 6

Degree Type Year Semester

2500245 OT 3 0

2500245 English Studies OT 4 0

Contact Use of

Name: Montserrat Capdevila Batet Principal working : english (eng) Email: [email protected] Some groups entirely in English: Yes Some groups entirely in Catalan: No Some groups entirely in Spanish: No Prerequisites

- Students should have passes Use of English 1 and 2 to register for the course.

- The course requires an initial level of English C1 (Advanced) or C2 (Proficiency) of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment. Students with C1 can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognise implicit meaning; can express themselves fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions; they can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes; they can produce clear, well-structured, detailed texts on complex subjects, showing controlled use of connectors and cohesive devices. With C2, students can understand almost everything they read or hear without effort; they can summarise information from different oral and written sources, reconstruct facts and arguments and present them in a coherent way; they can express themselves spontaneously, with fluency and precision, distinguishing subtle nuances of meaning even in the most complex situations.

Objectives and Contextualisation

This offers an in-depth of the areas of English morphology, lexicology and semantics. focuses on the analysis of the most important morphological phenomena and on the analysis of structure (derivation and compounding). Secondly, it studies the structure of the and lexical models. Thirdly, it distinguishes between and sentence semantics and analyses both of them.

Skills

English Studies Critically assessing the scientific, literary and cultural production in the . Describe synchronously the main units, constructions and phenomena of the English language. Students can apply the knowledge to their own work or vocation in a professional manner and have the powers generally demonstrated by preparing and defending arguments and solving problems within their area of study.

Students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their study area) to issue 1 Students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their study area) to issue judgments that include reflection on important issues of social, scientific or ethical. Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences. Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy. Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study. Utilising new technologies in order to capture and organise information in English and other languages, and applying it to the personal continued training and to the problem-solving in the professional or research activity. Working in an autonomous and responsible way in a professional or research environment in English or other languages, in order to accomplish the previously set objectives.

Learning outcomes

1. Applying the acquired knowledge and competences to professional and academic activities related to . 2. Applying the acquired methodologies of work planning to work in an environment in the English language. 3. Applying the acquired scientific and work planning methodologies to the research in English. 4. Communicating in the studied language in oral and written form, properly using and grammar. 5. Critically assessing the analysis and syntactic, morphological and lexicological elements submitted during the course. 6. Demonstrate a master of the specific methods of individual academic work that prepare the student for a postgraduate specialised education in the same or a different field of study. 7. Demonstrate a sound knowledge about the topics related to the study of linguistics. 8. Describing language phenomena from a semantic perspective, and demonstrating a general comprehension of the theoretical concepts of lexicology and lexical semantics. 9. Effectively communicating and applying the argumentative and textual processes to formal and scientific texts. 10. Identifying the constituents of derivative and . 11. Issue appropriate critical assessments based on the comprehension of relevant information about social, scientific or ethical issues related to linguistics. 12. Locating and organising relevant information in English that is available on the Internet, in databases, etc.

Content

- Introduction to theoretical framework. Structuralist morphology vs. generativist morphology.

- Morphology and morphological analysis. Inflectional and derivational morphology.

- Word formation processes. Analysis of derived and compound words. Typology.

- Lexicology. Lexical access and categorization Lexicologia.

- Structure of the lexicon. Types of words. The .

- Processes that characterise the lexicon in English.

- Semantics. Lexical semantics and sentence semantics.

- Denotation, reference and connotation. Semantic fields and semantic networks.

- Semantic ambiguity.

2 Methodology

La metodologia d'aquesta ssignatura es basa en una combinació de classes magistrals, debats en grup, exercicis tutories individualitzades.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes

Type: Directed

Lectures with ICT support 25 1 5, 6, 8, 10, 12

Practical exercises and class discussions 25 1 1, 5, 7, 11, 9, 4

Type: Supervised

Class practice and individual tutorials 25 1 2, 1, 7, 6, 8, 9, 10

Type: Autonomous

Reading and study; assignments 50 2 2, 3, 1, 5, 7, 6, 8, 11, 9, 4, 10, 12

Evaluation

Assignment 1: 10%

Assignment 2: 10%

Assignment 3: 10%

Exam 1: 20%

Exam 2: 20%

Exam 3: 20%

Exercises and activities: 10%

REASSESSMENT:

- Those students with a final mark between 4 and 4,9 are allowed to reassess.

- The reassessment exam will be a written exam, at a time scheduled by the Faculty, and which is going to cover the contents of the subject. The reassessment mark will not be higher than 5.

- Handing in activities/assignments (30%) excludes the possiblity of a No Avaluable in the subject.

- VERY IMPORTANT: Total or partial plagiarism of any of the exercises will automatically be considered "fail" (0) for the whole course, not only for the plagiarized item. Plagiarism is copying or more sentences from unidentified sources, presenting it as original work (THIS EXCLUDES COPYING SENTENCES OR FRAGMENTS FROM THE INTERNET AND ADDING THEM WITHOUT MODIFICATION TO A TEXT WHICH IS PRESENTED AS ORIGINAL). Plagiarism is a serious offence. Students must learn to respect the intellectual property of others, identifying any source they may use, and take responsibility for the originality and authencity of the texts they produce.

3 Evaluation activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning outcomes

Activities 10% 4 0.16 2, 3, 1, 5, 7, 6, 8, 10, 12

Assignment 1 10 5 0.2 3, 1, 7, 11, 10

Assignment 2 10 5 0.2 2, 3, 1, 7, 8, 11, 9, 12

Assignment 3 10 5 0.2 1, 5, 7, 8, 11

Exam 1 20 2 0.08 3, 1, 7, 6, 11, 9, 4, 10

Exam 3 20 2 0.08 1, 5, 7, 8, 11, 9

Examen 2 20 2 0.08 1, 5, 7, 8, 11, 9

Bibliography

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Aronoff, M. & K. Fudeman (2005) What is morphology? London: Blackwell.

Aronoff, M. (1994) Morphology by Itself. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press.

Bochner, H. (1993) Simplicity in Generative Morphology. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter. Halliday, M., Teubert, X., Yallop, C. & A.

Cermakova (2000) Lexicology and . An Introduction. London: Continuum.

Cruse, C.A. (1986) Lexical Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Halliday, M. & C. Yallop (2007) Lexicology: A Short Introduction. London: Continuum. 6

Katamba, F. (1993) Morphology. London: Macmillan.

Katamba, F. (2004) Morphology: Morphology: its Place in the Wider Context. London: Routledge.

Lipka, L. (2002) English lexicology: Lexical Structure, Word Semantics & Word Formation. 2nd edition. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

Matthews, P.H. (1974) Morphology: An Introduction to the Theory of Word Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Siegel, D. (1979) Topics in English Morphology. London/New York: Garland Publishing Inc.

Spencer, A. (1991) Morphological Theory: An Introduction to Word Structure in . Oxford: Blackwell.

Spencer, A. & A. Zwicky (2001) The Handbook of Morphology. London: Blackwell.

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